Christmas Warzone

Run time: 04:55 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cKJD4a3Ris   Posted on YouTube: December 29, 2006 By YouTube Member: zulchzulu Views on YouTube: 379   Posted on DU: December 30, 2006 By DU Member: zulchzulu Views on DU: 512

 
I decided to do a video of a song I wrote on Dec. 23 about a soldier dying in Iraq on Christmas Day. It turns out that at least three US soldiers tragically died that day.

Christmas Warzone

He lay dying from wounds from a roadside bomb blast just outside of Baghdad
Meanwhile, it was Christmas Day, and so far away, his daughter was tearfully glad
He was to come home, it was February, then they changed it to June
He'd be back in one piece with a righteous smile traveling, back with his platoon

He had been helping rebuild an oil refinery and there had been many "near-misses"
He didn't believe it when Rumsfeld said that they would be greeted with roses and kisses
He couldn't understand why his President lied and he was sent to this illegal, crazy war
He had seen his buddies get their brains blown up and he asked what they were fighting for

CHORUS
Now he lays there dying and crying and bleeding on a dusty road on Christmas Day
He screamed for his buddies to see if they were alive and he could tell they were not OK
The sun and the clouds above him were now beginning to form into a dark, bloody storm
On this Christmas Day, it seemed so far away from his home so peaceful and warm

Bridge
He's a broken pawn soon to be carried off and hidden from the eyes of the World
His family and loved one would get the bad news that his blood had been courageously spilled
For the war profiteers and the chickenhawks and those that don't have a real clue
We won't hear his last desperate cries about those who lied and made him think it was the right thing to do

Chorus



- Rex Alpha and The Paranoids (C)2006

MP3: http://www.awolcowboy.com/mp3/Christmas_Warzone.mp3

Sad indeed...